I wanted to like this wine, if for nothing more than sentiment (bottle purchased March 2011 at Nicolas à la Rue Buci à Saint-Germain, Paris). Alas, the wine didn't hold up as well as the memory: not enough fruit-body to keep nose and palate from collapsing to a astringent, reedy floor. Palate especially goes to all cedar shavings pretty quick, with only the fading-to-brownish-red color of the liquid reminding me I'm not drinking from a pencil-sharpener. I mean, I'm straining my senses here to find matured-and-reasonably-balanced-juice-from-grapes, and this wine is coming up way short. Maybe I got the odd off-bottle, but I doubt it: Nicolas purchase, carefully transported and stored. This may have been a good, every-day drinking Pomerol - I just drank it on a day (a year or more) too late.
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sight: promising straw/gold ... more gold than straw nose: again promising - pineapple, straw, some thin earth & stone mouth: initially decent acidity and citrusy flavors ... but they faded finish: a let-down - the run-up by nose and (less-so by the) mouth didn't carry through on the finish. Ended with thin flavors & some flab.
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2007 Château Bourgneuf
6/8/2018 - usery Does not like this wine: 62 Points
I wanted to like this wine, if for nothing more than sentiment (bottle purchased March 2011 at Nicolas à la Rue Buci à Saint-Germain, Paris). Alas, the wine didn't hold up as well as the memory: not enough fruit-body to keep nose and palate from collapsing to a astringent, reedy floor. Palate especially goes to all cedar shavings pretty quick, with only the fading-to-brownish-red color of the liquid reminding me I'm not drinking from a pencil-sharpener. I mean, I'm straining my senses here to find matured-and-reasonably-balanced-juice-from-grapes, and this wine is coming up way short. Maybe I got the odd off-bottle, but I doubt it: Nicolas purchase, carefully transported and stored. This may have been a good, every-day drinking Pomerol - I just drank it on a day (a year or more) too late.
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2010 Domaines Minchin Menetou-Salon Morogues La Tour St Martin
11/15/2014 - usery Likes this wine: 89 Points
Sa robe pâle et dorée s’ouvre sur un nez riche et complexe de pamplemousse, de citron, de fruits blancs et de notes minérales.
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2010 Domaine Clos des Rocs Pouilly-Loché Les Mûres
12/31/2013 - usery Likes this wine: 83 Points
sight: promising straw/gold ... more gold than straw
nose: again promising - pineapple, straw, some thin earth & stone
mouth: initially decent acidity and citrusy flavors ... but they faded
finish: a let-down - the run-up by nose and (less-so by the) mouth didn't carry through on the finish. Ended with thin flavors & some flab.
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